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From syntax.cgi:

# the following situations are not handled correctly:
# - nested curly braces for strings like {abd{def}ghi}
# - multiline quoted strings, use [text] [/text] instead
# - multiline braced strings, use [text] [/text] instead
# - comments starting with # but not starting at beginning of line
# use ; as comment starter when comment appears after code

I noticed these small things that don't work currently. Is this because they're too difficult/hard, or rather that the fixes will be made when there are less pressing things?

I was thinking of trying to adapt the code to generate pretty-printing for a document. I wasn't sure whether these rare situations would be a problem.

Is there room for a more general-purpose syntax-highlighting script that would be able to be customized to produce different types of markup?

They are hard to implement and no implementation is planned at the moment.

At least in my source, this has not represented a problem.

Lutz

I agree- a lot of effort for very small reward? The only one of these I might have used is the nested {} in strings: I think I've used these in regular expressions sometimes...

I'll see how I get on trying to convert it to another way of formatting code... (TeX... :-)